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In Beleaguered Babylon, Doing Battle Against Time, Water and Modern Civilization The ancient city of Babylon is a World Heritage Site, but it faces threats old and new. As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past. A replica of the Ishtar Gate built in the 1950s, when Iraq first started developing the remains of Babylon as a tourist site.Credit...Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen for The New York Times By Jane Arraf Feb. 6, 2021 BABYLON, Iraq — Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of the ancient walls of Babylon. Paw prints o...

Saving the modernist architecture of Louis Kahn’s IIM Ahmedabad dormitories Saving the modernist architecture of Louis Kahn’s IIM Ahmedabad dormitories Noor Dasmesh Singh (architect, urbanist and principal of award-winning NOOR Architects Consultants based in Chandigarh, India) discusses the threat posed to the dormitories at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Louis Kahn’s modernist architecture Louis Kahn was invited to design IIM-A in 1962 As a World Heritage preservation controversy brews, the administration at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (IIM...

a href= http://www.wmf.org target= _blank World Monuments Fund /a called for the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to reeval